Wire-spooling attachment for drilling machines



April 29 1924. 1,491,835

c. R. wHi-rz WIRE SPOOLING ATTACHMENT FOR DRIiJ-IING MACHINES Origin a1 Filed may 16 "1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL INVENTOR WITNESS ATTORNEY April 2 1924. 1,451,335

C. R. WHITE W IRE SPOOLING ATTACHMENT FOR DRILLING MACHINES Or 1 W W lglna Flled May 16 W 2 s'hegxts Sheet 2 ATTORNEY WITNESS v Patented Apr. 29, 1924.

UNITED STATES CHARLE ROY WHITE, OF BUFFALO, KANSAS.

WIRE-SPOOLING- ATTACHMENT FOR DRILLING MACHINES.

Refiled for abandoned application Serial No. 470,169, filed May 16, 1921. This application filed March 10, 1924. Serial No. 698,282.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES RoY WHITE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Wilson and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wire-Spooling Attachments for Drilling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is the provision of an easily applied attachment for drilling machines, through the medium of which a wire may be taken off the machine expeditiously and with the expenditure of but little labor.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating the application of my improvement to a drilling machine, a portion only of the machine being illustrated.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Figures 3, 4 and 5 are detail views hereinafter explicitly referred to.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts'in all of the views of the drawings.

The drilling machine illustrated is not of my invention and is shown merely by way of example.

In accordance with my invention, I employ in conjunction with the frame 1 of the drilling machine, and the shaft 2, journaled in appropriate bearings 3 on said frame, the

sub-frame 4, the spool 5, shaft 6 and pulley 7 carried by said sub-frame, and a pulley 8 with a sleeve 9 adapted to be mounted on the shaft 2 when the ordinary spur gear is removed from said shaft. The attachment also comprises an appropriate belt 10 through the medium of which the pulley 7 is driven from the pulley 8. As illustrated the pulley 7 is fixed on the shaft 6 by set screws 11, and the sleeve 9 is detachably secured on the shaft 2 by set screws 12, it being understood in this connection that the keyway in the shaft 2 is for the attachment to the shaft of the spur gear before alluded to,

The frame a of the spool 5 includes two inclined sleepers 13, and the said sleepers 13 are beveled at their upper ends as indicated by 14 and are there provided with hooks 15 adapted to straddle the transverse bar 16 of the drilling machine frame.

When it is desired to take wire off the drilling machine and put it on the spool 5, my attachment is arranged as illustrated relatively to the drilling machine whereupon the spool 5 will be rotated from the shaft 2 of the machine.

The practical advantage of my improved attachment will be better appreciated when it is stated that in the absence of my attachment it is necessary for two men to turn the spool for the taking of wire off a drilling machine, and it also requires one man to spool the line of wire and another man in charge of the engine. With the assistance of my novel attachment the work can be accomplished by two men and in very much less time than when the line of wire is taken off the machine by four men according to the old procedure.

The spool 5 is flanged as indicated by 17.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is

An attachment to take wire off a drilling machine and spool the wire, comprising a frame equipped for coupling to the frame of a drilling machine, a spool mounted in said frame, a driving element adapted for application to one of the driven elements of the drilling machine, and a driving connection intermediate of said driving element and the spool; the spool frame including inclined sleepers to abut against one end of the drilling machine frame, and the coupling including hooks on said sleepers to straddle a transverse bar of the drilling machine frame, and the driving element applied to a driven element of the machine being in the form of a pulley with a sleeve equipped to be set on the driving element and being connected with the sleeve of the spool through the medium of a belt and a pulley fixed by set screws on the shaft of thespool.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES ROY WHITE. 

